The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

The research included professors Kevin Hatala from Chatham U. in Pittsburgh and Craig Feibel of Rutgers and showed two human ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

A recent study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that for 2 million years, Homo sapiens and ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.